Ellen thomson phillips



(No Model.)

E. T. PHILLIPS.

BUSTLB No. 353,881. Patented Dem, 1886.

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ELLEN THOMSON PHILLIPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUSTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,881, dated December 7, 1886.

Serial No. 178,740. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, ELLEN THOMSON PHIL- l LIPS, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bustles, of which the following is a speciiication.

I have devised a construction which is eminently simple and easily made and repaired by ordinary means and skill, and which properly expands the dress and accommodates itself with facility to every posture. There are no springs to become set or broken.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specilicat-ion.

Figure l is a perspective View showing the bustle in use. Fig. 2 represents the bustle extended-an outside view 5 and Fig. 3 is a corresponding inside view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all 'the figures where they occur.

A is the waistband, provided with a buckle, a, which performs the ordinary functions.

B, O C, and D D are pockets, of niuslin or other suitable material, partially stuffed with deers hair or analogous light land perma nently-elastic material, so as to make each pocket ofoval section. The pockets thus produced dii-fer in length. The central pocket, B, is the longest. The pockets C C, one on each side of B, are nearly as long as B. The pockets D, which come one on each hip, are much shorter. The pockets are stitched together liexibly. The edges `of O O adjacent to the pocket B are equipped with cords c c, so attached asto form loops. A lacing, E, attached permanently to one ofthe pockets C at e, is rove through the loops c, extending diagonally across ironi one side to the other, being led several times across from one side to the other and tied to a short cord, e', at-

' tached to the waistband, or to the inner face of the pocket B near its top. Taking up or letting out this lacing E varies the fullness of the bustle at the back-that is to say, letting out this lacing allows the pocket B to flatten and the whole bustle to expand in width and decrease in fullness, while taking up the lacing E draws the loops c, and consequently the pockets C C, together, narrowing the entlre bustle, and increasing the fullness of the central pocket, B.

G is edging, serving as decoration.

vH H are gored pieces of inuslin or other light iiexible material, arranged as shown. They connect to the bottom and side edges of the pockets D D, and may usually be an extension of a portion of the material thereof. They connect also to the outer edges of O C near the bottom. They steady and strengthen the construction, leaving it just sufciently yielding. o5

Modifications may be made. The relative lengths of the pockets may be varied. Parts of the invention may be used without the whole. I can omit the hip-pockets D D. I can use any kind of hair or moss for the ll- 7o ing of the pockets B C D.

I claim as my invention- 1. The bustle described, having a central pocket, B, and Side pockets, C O, extending up'and down and flexibly counected,with partial iillings of elastic material` in combination with each other and with the waistband A and the lacing E. connected to the inner edges of the pockets O O, whereby the said pockets O O are forced inward laterally and the pocket B thrown outward, as set forth.

2. In a bustle, the combination, with the pockets C O and intermediate pocket, B, arranged as shown, of loops c, secured at the junction of each pocket O with the pocket B, and thelacing E, operating through said loops, as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a hustle, the combination, with the band A and central pocket, B, of the pockets O C, arranged one on either side of said pocket B and iiexibly connected therewith, the loops c, secured to the fabric at thejunction of each pocket O with the pocket B, and a lacingcord, E, operating through said loops across the interior face of the pocket B, to compress 95 said pocket and force the pockets O O nearer to each other, as and for the purposes speciiied.

ln testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at New York city, New York, in the roo presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELLEN THOMSON PHILLIPS.

Witnesses:

M. F. BoYLE, MANIERRE ELLIsoN. 

